More than two years after the death of Aaron Swartz, a pro­gram­mer and on­line act­iv­ist who took his own life after be­ing charged with data theft, law­makers are try­ing for a second time to pass a bill that would soften the terms of the law he was charged un­der.

Demo­crat­ic Sen. Ron Wyden of Ore­gon and Demo­crat­ic Rep. Zoe Lof­gren of Cali­for­nia on Tues­day re­in­tro­duced the so-called “Aaron’s Law,” which they say would clear up vague lan­guage in the Com­puter Fraud and Ab­use Act to keep low-level vi­ol­at­ors from get­ting in trouble with the law.

As it stands, ac­cess­ing a com­puter without au­thor­iz­a­tion is a fed­er­al crime, something crit­ics say can lead to the ag­gress­ive pro­sec­u­tion of small-time law­break­ers. The bill would nar­row the scope of the CFAA so that ba­sic of­fenses like vi­ol­a­tions of a web­site’s or soft­ware’s terms-of-ser­vices agree­ment could not lead to fed­er­al charges. It would also lim­it pro­sec­utors’ abil­ity to bring fed­er­al charges on top of state charges.

“At its very core, CFAA is an anti-hack­ing law,” Lof­gren said in a state­ment. “Un­for­tu­nately, over time we have seen pro­sec­utors broad­en­ing the in­tent of the act, hand­ing out in­or­din­ately severe crim­in­al pen­al­ties for less-than-ser­i­ous vi­ol­a­tions. It’s time we re­formed this law to bet­ter fo­cus on truly ma­li­cious hack­ers and bad act­ors, and away from com­mon com­puter and In­ter­net activ­it­ies.”

The pro­posed law is sup­por­ted by Re­pub­lic­ans Rand Paul of Ken­tucky in the Sen­ate and Jim Sensen­bren­ner of Wis­con­sin in the House.

“I am proud to join Sen. Wyden and Rep. Lof­gren today in of­fer­ing this bi­par­tis­an and bicam­er­al le­gis­la­tion which will amend the Com­puter Fraud and Ab­use Act,” Paul said. “Aaron’s Law will re­duce over­broad pro­sec­u­tions and ad­just un­fair sen­ten­cing prac­tices.”

Swartz, the bill’s name­sake, was charged in 2011 un­der the CFAA for gain­ing un­au­thor­ized ac­cess to JSTOR, a sub­scrip­tion-based lib­rary of aca­dem­ic journ­als and pa­pers. He al­legedly down­loaded al­most 5 mil­lion art­icles from the data­base. Swartz was fa­cing up to 35 years in pris­on and $1 mil­lion in fines when he was found dead in his apart­ment in Janu­ary 2013.

The CFAA in its cur­rent form is harm­ful to com­puter se­cur­ity re­search­ers—who hack in­to devices and net­works to find and ex­pose vul­ner­ab­il­it­ies—ac­cord­ing to the Elec­tron­ic Fron­ti­er Found­a­tion, be­cause it ex­poses re­search­ers to li­ab­il­ity and pun­ish­ment at the same level as ma­li­cious hack­ers.

The re­in­tro­duc­tion of Aaron’s Law comes after a week after Wyden and Demo­crat­ic Rep. Jared Pol­is of Col­or­ado pro­posed an up­date to the Di­git­al Mil­leni­um Copy­right Act, which would also seek to re­duce the bur­den of li­ab­il­ity that se­cur­ity re­search­ers face when they at­tempt to get in­to devices and net­works.

Aaron’s Law was first in­tro­duced in 2013, months after Swartz’s death, but it stalled in the face of dif­fer­ences between the spon­sors, Wyden and Lof­gren, and House Ju­di­ciary Com­mit­tee chair­man Bob Good­latte.

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